Villa Namnuea Luang Prabang

... on leaving Luang Prabang until the following evening and I had arranged to meet up with them for a night out since it was Halloween that night. Luckily, right after I checked in I saw Tom and his friends at the hotel and we arranged to meet that evening for dinner. After walking aimlessly around for a bit looking for a good place to eat, we ended up at a make-you-own Laosian soup restaurant. Basically, you chose your type of meat off of the menu and they bring over baskets full of ...

... and markets and you dont get hasseled like you do in thailand, we went out for a trip yesterday. we sailed down the mekong rive in a slow boat which is like a big canoe to the whiskey village to see how it is made then visted the caves, came back and we took a bus to the waterfalls the waterfall are the best we have seen here the water is ...

... br><br>The w*y b*ck w*s m*rred by the f*ct th*t 99% of tuk-tuk drivers *re complete *rseholes. They quote * ludicrous price, then t*ke *ges to b*rg*in, then try to insist th*t "you p*y now!" before the vehicle h*s even moved. There w*s *lso * horrid little m*n w*ndering *bout selling drugs who just r*ndomly shouted "**** you!" *t Sus*n for no *pp*rent re*son. Eventu*lly we negoti*ted * decent price *nd got ourselves b*ck to the hostel, then went to bed.<br>

... as pushy. We made friends with Daniel and his Thai girlfriend Ead and went on a day trip all together to caves and a beautiful multitiered waterfall. We found an excellent restaurant which you had to get a boat across the river to, this was not easy at the end of the night in the dark and not comforting when the guy in the boat is scooping out water with a bucket!! We had our first Korean Fondu which was lovely its like a soup which you make yourself and you ...

... the night market is on. Locals kneel down on the edge of the pavement with bamboo pots of sticky rice and as each monk passes a ball of rice is placed into each sleepy monk's alms bowl. We had read in various travel literature that tourists were welcome to observe this alms giving but were implored not to use flash photography, or indeed, walk right up to a monk with your camera even if it meant you could catch a beautiful snap. To our horror flocks of tourists ...

... over some daunting rapids. Fortunately we made it back unscathed and this added to what had already been one of the highlights of our trip in South East Asia. <br><br>What a three days, spending so much time in the company of these magnificent creatures, riding, bathing and feeding them was so memorable, an experience never to forget.<br><br>Here are the photos.<br><br>Next stop, a visit to Luang Nam Tha and some trekking to meet indigenous hill tribes.

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... have a good time with it. <br> Morning usually flies by, surprisingly so seeing how much I anticipate lunch everyday. Usually I go to the food market next door. In 30 seconds I can be standing in front of 25 different kinds of wonderful foods like sun dried mud ox, grilled  whole or half chickens, fried chicken feet and rooster's head rubber banded together, grilled fish stuffed with lemon grass, grilled mud ox, some soup like desserts, bamboo soup, papaya salad, different ...

... and the public humiliation she endured caused a flood of tears. Eventually Sivankham had to take her home while Sisamui languished with his friends in a Johnny Walker haze, only occasionally catching my eye and forcing me to eat some gobbet of strange food or drink more Johnny Walker - I was his pet victim for such things. I was slightly surprised that the weakest drink of any sort on offer at the wedding was forty percent alcohol - although later on I did see some glasses of water ...